If you ever find yourself developing a site on a public facing domain, it is always a good idea to have measures in place to prevent search engines indexing it in the event that a stray link enables a search engine spider to find it. A few of the things that you can do are…

Ensure the document head of each page has the “noindex” meta tag. This statement tells search engine spiders to not index any of the content on the current page.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />

Ensure the document head of each page has the “nofollow” meta tag. This statement tells search engine spiders to not follow any links on the page.

<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />

Add a rule to the robots.txt file that prevents search engine spiders from accessing the site.

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What do I do?

Broadly speaking, I specialise in creating websites. Not the design, but the stuff that makes it work, web application development some might call it. Expect to read about JavaScript & jQuery, new web technology, innovative front-end solutions, SEO, Drupal & PHP, and the occasional post about where I feign knowledge in marketing and analytics.

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